2019 EnerGIS Conference Call For Papers Deadline Is Feb. 8: If you are involved in the energy industry and focus on geospatial issues, please consider submitting an abstract to this GITA-sponsored conference! To learn more, visit our call-for-papers webpage.

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Early Career Professionals, Retirees Welcome: The new member types recognize the career realities that face both new and retiring workforce members.

State ScoopFor the government officials using geospatial information systems to make government work more efficiently, understanding business goals is key, according to two GIS leaders.
New York Geographic Information Officer Frank Winters and New Jersey Geographic Information Officer Andy Rowan said GIS officials need to emphasize communication and coordination with other agencies as they pursue technology projects.READ MORE

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The American SurveyorThe Global Positioning System Directorate has released a Federal Register Notice announcing plans to execute a test in February 2019 to investigate legacy receiver week roll-over behavior and analyze any off-nominal behavior exhibited.
The Global Positioning System week number rollover occurs in the GPS legacy navigation message every 1,024 weeks due to the GPS week number being represented by only 10 bits within the LNAV message. READ MORE

Engineering.comEarth has always been evolving, sometimes over eons and sometimes more quickly. The introduction of satellites has evolved into an often awe-inspiring picture of that change. Satellogic has partnered with China Great Wall Industry Corporation to take imaging Earth and sorting that data to the next level. Satellogic, the first vertically integrated geospatial analytics company, will launch 90 spacecraft into low Earth orbit on Long March-6 rockets. READ MORE

CBS NewsFor decades, the U.S. has relied on spy satellites to look deep into the territory of American adversaries, and for years, these were the cameras dominating Earth's orbit.
Not anymore.
As David Martin reports on "60 Minutes," there are now commercial companies putting small satellites in space and allowing customers to purchase panoramic images of Earth. READ MORE

Directions MagazineNational States Geographic Information Council has released their findings from a first-ever survey of the nation's state election directors, seeking to determine the current status of the implementation of GIS in elections. A number of states have championed the use of this technology in recent years to strengthen the accuracy and reliability of their electoral systems, and NSGIC's Geo-Enabled Elections project was created to assist states and other election authorities in this process.READ MORE

Geospatial WorldLiDAR, or light detection and ranging, is a popular remote sensing method used for measuring the exact distance of an object on the earth's surface. Even though it was first used in the 1960s when laser scanners were mounted to aeroplanes, LiDAR didn't get the popularity it deserved until 20 years later. It was only during the 1980s after the introduction of GPS that it became a popular method for calculating accurate geospatial measurements.READ MORE

GIM InternationalThe FIG president holds one of the most influential positions in the surveying field and helps to shape the profession. The new president, Rudolf Staiger, was elected during the Istanbul Congress in 2018 and officially took office for a period of four years in November. In this interview, GIM International asks him about his views on the profession, now and in the future, and also about who Rudolf Staiger actually is.READ MORE

Inside GNSSWith Galileo services such as high-accuracy service and commercial authentication service on E6-B/C signal coming around the corner, the European GNSS Service Centre has made available the main specifications of the Galileo E6-B and E6-C codes to the User Community.
The GSC just published "Galileo E6-B/C Codes Technical Note" on the GSC web portal.READ MORE

GPS WorldThe European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, a satellite-based augmentation system, provides corrections and integrity information to GPS signals over Europe and is fully interoperable with other SBAS such as North America's WAAS. Among its services is the internet-based EGNOS Data Access Service.READ MORE